The leaders of Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda will attend a regional summit in Uganda on Saturday after rebels seized the main eastern Congolese city of Goma, Ugandan officials said on Thursday.

Rebels widely believed to be backed by Rwanda claimed control of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday, walking through the frontier city of one million people past UN peacekeepers who did nothing to stop them.

Rebels believed to be backed by Rwanda resumed mortar and machine gun fire on Monday at a village just 3 kilometres outside of the crucial, provincial capital of Goma, hours after saying they were halting fighting in order to negotiate with the government of Congo.

I'm taking an early morning stroll through vivid, peridot-coloured tea plants to have a dip in an infinity pool with uninterrupted rainforest views. A sunbird is hopping along the path beside me, cocking his petrol-blue head inquisitively. I could be in Sri Lanka or China, but actually, I'm at the new five-star Nyungwe Forest Lodge in Rwanda.

If I had to pick a black political genius on the world stage today, I would not choose Barack Obama. The US president clearly has the stuff for greatness. But it's early in the day and his lack of concrete achievements clearly bothers even many people of good will about his winning this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

Clandestine interrogations between investigators and an alleged war criminal come to an abrupt end when his naked body is pulled from a Belgian canal, his hands so mangled that they are initially reported as missing.

The woman featured in the article headlined 'I fled hell - now at least I have hope' on C4 yesterday was mistakenly identified as coming from Rwanda. She does not, but prefers her country of origin to remain private. The error was introduced in the editing process.